My eyes widened, looking at a different atmosphere.
The expanse of stars in the sky watching me who is confused in the middle of a stretch of meadow. The cold air penetrate the pores of my skin eventhough the jacket still attached to my body.
"Huh?!"
I stand up from the lying position immediately.
"Where am I??" I whispered as I am looking around me.
Lots of questions running through my mind. In fact, the last time I was in a strange restaurant with lots of hands pulled me.
"This is really weird!"
There is no life at all here. It is just me with the grass dancing in the gentle breeze. The towering trees seem very far from my current position.
My mind to Ayse's figure for a moment. She disappeared as if swallowed by Earth.
"Ayse!"
My eyes looking for her. I run as far as I could to find her. However, there is no sign of her existence at all.
Nothing.
She is really disappeared.
"Damn!" I grumbled.
As far as I run in this meadow, suddenly a residential area with bright lights appears in my vision. In fact, there is clearly a commotion from that direction like celebrating an event.
Curiosity even more in my heart.
Finally, I decided to go there. Need to walk a little far to reach the settlement. It was rare for me to walk this far before. It could say this can reduce calories and nourish the body.
After a half hour, in the last step, I am arriving in the residential area.
The buildings with the architecture that like the Medieval era, towering. The sound of singing people accompanied by bagpipe instruments and the laughter of many people could be heard in my ears clearly. The smell of roasted food is getting stronger.
Either, I do not know what is going on here. It seems like a night festival or something.
A few steps later, people begin to seems walk with a black cloak covering their bodies. So, I cannot see their faces.
"Wow, really crowd!" I thought.
"Hominum!"
Suddenly someone with a black cloak in other way, with deep voice shouted an unfamiliar word while pointing at me.
Everyone here turn to look at me immediately. Their head covering cloak gradually opened. Their sharp eyes as if they wanted to ambush me, accompanied by their long fangs in their mouths.
They are not human. But, monsters.
Monsters in the form of food.
"What the …,"
Without think, I run immediately from them.
Suddenly one of them managed to grab my head covering jacket and throw me into one of the nearby buildings. My whole body, especially from my head to back, is in great pain due to the strong impact of the concrete building and caused damage. Fresh blood splashed out from my mouth.
"Arrgghhh!!"
Their aperarances are like food, such as tomatoes, kiwifruit, pizza, chocolate, and so on. Despite their unique appearances, their scary fangs ready to tearing me apart.
They approaching me in a crowd. They are surrounding me right now.
I cannot get up. It is very difficult. However, I have to escape from here.
Suddenly when I managed to get up and run away with all my power, a potato monster with glowing orange eyes, managed to ambush me again. His sharp nails grip my neck tightly. My body lift high.
All the food monsters gathering around us with hungry gaze at me.
"Mine, mine!!"
They nudged each other to get any parts of my body.
"L–LET ME G–GO!!" I stuttered as his strangles stronger.
My hands tried to get out of his hands. However, my efforts were in vain. My feet move here to there. The flow of blood and oxygen throughout my body stagnates. My vision slowly faded, followed by my sense of hearing getting dimmer.
I cannot breath.
In a seconds, I will die in his hands.
Suddenly a potato monster's stranglehold on my neck weakened.
A masked-cloaked figure saving me.
He embraced me with his one hand, the other hand while riding his brown horse, running from the swarm of monsters. He sows a mysterious powder that managed to weak their movements.
They screamed in pain from the powder that into their eyes.
Finally, we move away from them.
However, I do not know where this masked-cloaked man is headed. Also, I do not know where he will taking me. I wonder about him and the purpose behind all this. Negative thoughts also appears in my brain.
Along the way, I am coughing because of the strangled effect of a potato monster is still really painful. But, he do not say anything to me. His gaze continued to stare ahead as the horse accelerate.
Our position begin to enter the pine forest area after passing through a stretch of green meadow. In the middle of this pine forest with very tall roots surrounding us, since the day is already late of night, for a moment, it is adding to a scary impression.
Suddenly, the horse slow its movement as the masked-cloaked man pulled the rope up.
We enter into a large cave.
The horse stop right by a bonfire that lay on a support at the side of the cave passage.
The masked-cloaked man descended first. After that, he tied the rope on his horse to the support attached to the cave wall. Suddenly he extending his hand to me.
I dare to do not touch his hand which is covered with the black glove that made from the animal skin. However, he still held out his hand to me, waiting for me to response.
Finally with a feeling full of doubt, I response his hand, slowly. He helped me to get down from his brown horse. Then, he helped me to walk into the cave area and lay down on a small mattress with three square pillows piled there.
"T–thank you!" I said.
He do not answer my words. He left me alone in this cave room.
Actually it is not like a shabby cave. This cave designed in such a way as a small house eventhough the walls and floors are made from stone — completed with many furniture are made from stone and pine wood. The lighting in this room is limited to three bonfires standing upright with iron supports on the cave walls. This mattress is placed in the corner of the side of the cave room. Then, there is a dining table that made from pine wood, and the cooking equipments are use traditional tools such as firewood.
A few moments later, the masked-cloaked man come back with a wooden bucket filled with water inside. The water is boiled first using firewood for a half hour. Then, he turn off the burning firewood. The wooden bucket filled with hot water is left for a moment. After that, he brought me that and a white towel. He carefully place a warm compress on my neck.
"Don't move too much.
"Go to sleep, I'll make you a food."
The masked-cloaked figure in front of me is a woman and she talk to me.
"She can talk!" I thought.
I silent in disbelief.
I cannot look at her face because of her mask. When I turn around myself just a little, the pain in my neck come back.
"Wait!"
She stop walking.
"Who are you?" I asked her. My head filled with full of questions about her.
"Why did you save me?
"What do you want from me?"
However, she continued to walk and leave me alone here. Without answered my question.
"Hey, come back!"
But when I tried to move my neck, the pain gnawed there again. My hand that tried to reached her, it leaned back on this small mattress.
I sighed.
The questions that I hoped to get the answers quickly are forced to return back to my brain.
Instantly the sensation of a warm compress on my neck is able to calm me down, slowly. Without realizing it, my eyes are close and fall asleep.